by Michele Langlo

Created on: September 02, 2009   Last Updated: September 05, 2009

While there are some TV evangelists who are good Christian men who preach a message according to the Bible, the inerrant word of God, there are also those evangelist who stand screaming from the pulpit, spewing their judgment and condemnation upon the congregation in hopes of convicting souls to buy their latest book which just happens to contain three hundred pages of propaganda pertaining to whatever form of used-car-lot gospel they wish to pedal, by which they extort hard-earned cash from lost and God-seeking souls with their lies and false prophecies written therein. And it is all so they may line their greedy, stinking pockets with their fraudulent and ill-gotten gains.

I once listened to a sermon being preached by a TV evangelist of the latter sort. He had shouted so loud and so long his voice became hoarse. He began to make sounds somewhat similar to fingernails on a chalkboard. He turned red as he pounded his fist on the pulpit. He began sweat profusely. The drooling came thereafter.

While my normal response to person making a spectacle of himself/herself on television was usually to turn off the set or to switch the channel, on this particular day I guess I found the guy kind of entertaining so I continued to watch.

Finally he came to the close of the sermon. Over and over again he shouted, "God can't save you if..." and then he would follow up those words with whatever bizarre delusion that came from his current onset of severe psychosis at that moment. I remember tilting my head, my eyes opening wide and just sitting there in complete and utter awe.

Where in the Bible does it say God can't save you if? I believe my Bible says, "I will have mercy upon whom I shall have mercy." I believe my Bible says, "All things are possible with God." And I believe my Bible speaks of God and says He is the Alpha and Omega, the omniscient, the omni-present, omni-powerful All Mighty God. What do you mean He can't? God can do anything He wants to... um... because He's God.

I am both amazed and disillusioned by the number of Christians who are programmed to see God as a great and powerful being but yet a being who cannot bring to fruition anything and everything He so desires.

I am even more amazed that the same Christians willingly apply limitations to God's love. Their descriptions of God paint a sullen picture of a cranky, ill-tempered king who will have you beheaded if you sneeze in his presence. And the part about God being long-suffering, great on mercy, having love greater than our imaginations can conceive? That part seems to get left out a lot.

"For God so loved the world He gaveth His only begotten Son that whosoever shall believeth in Him should not parish but have everlasting life." John 3:16

That's the first scripture I was taught as a child and I hope it's the last one I remember when I die.

Not only did God give His Son to die, He raised Him from the dead. That's what God can do. If He can do that I have faith He can do anything else He wants to as well.

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